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tliey are occasionally ([iiite injurious in places. The leaf rust is the 

 species most common. The Blue Stem and various Fifes are the varie- 

 ties of wheat generally grown. Oats, especially when planted late, is 

 often batlly rusted. Naturally rust is most abnndantii! the southeast- 

 ern counties. Hust seems to be quite severe, at least occasionally, in 

 Kingsbury, Clay, Deuel, h^uilk, I'rookings, Hanson. Minnehaha, Union, 

 Douglas and Davison counties. 



Xebraska. — Usually wheat is not batlly damaged by rust in this State, 

 although sometimes the injury is quite serious. The cereals in large 

 portions of the State were badly injured in 1891, the black stem rust 

 being abundant that year. In the sandy districts there is usually 

 but little trouble with rust. As in Iowa, spring sowing is common, 

 and is doubtless res[)ousible for much of the injury. Fortunately, 

 however, fall sowing is coming into vogue. As is usually the case, rust 

 often accompanies winterkilling and poor drainage. In the eastern 

 portion of the State oats is often severely damaged. The counties 

 from which much rust is rei)orted are Douglas, York, Loup, Dodge, 

 Nuckolls, Blaine, Gage, Custer, Frontier, Nance, Perkins, Hamilton, 

 Greeley, Howard, Adams, Wayne, Cuming, Boone, Seward, and Saline. 



Kansas. — In the eastern half of the State the wheat crop is (|uite 

 often injured by rust, but in the western half the damage is usually 

 insignificant. Notwithstandang its com}»arative immunity, the writer 

 once saw a held of White Michigan wheat in Cloud County totally 

 destroyed by rust, the i)robable yield of the field having been esti- 

 mated a few days prior to the attack at 2o bushels per acre. Turkey 

 wheat is quite resistant to rust and is a general favorite in the State, 

 particularly in the western part, and yet even in that section the 

 writer has seen it severely attacked by the stem rust. Oats is often 

 greatly damaged by stem rust in the eastern portion and is sometimes 

 a total loss. The crop suffered greatly in 1893. Occasionally fields of 

 late-sown oats are entirely destroyed before harvest. The counties in 

 which rust seems to occur most frequently are Kice, Montgomery, 

 Johnson, Stevens, Washington, Linn, Riley, OvSage, Jewell, Keno, 

 Marshall, Barton, Coffey, Bourbon, Ottawa, Shawnee, Decatur, and, 

 Miami. 



Texas. — Reports received from the State during the dry season of 

 1894 indicate that grain is not usually attacked by rust. However, but 

 little dependence" can be placed upon so few reports from so large a 

 State and only for one season, and moreover most of them were from 

 northern Texas and the Panhandle, where there is always considerable 

 drought. On the other hand, the wiiter knows from personal observa- 

 tion that in the east and south central portions of the State rust has 

 been so detrimental to wheat that this crop has been practically aban- 

 doned over an extensive area of excellent wheat land. It is claimed 

 that at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station rye is actually 

 injured by leaf rust even in midwinter. In fact, rye is often attacked 

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